If you don’t use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed in front of you.

The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.

The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence.

There is a distressing tendency of the L&D profession to latch on to half read and barely understood concepts.

There’s a fine line between child-like – learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff – and being child-ish.